Girl

Mother and daughters can either have a good  or a distance relationship.  In the story "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid, its about a mother telling her daughter everything she needs to know to be a girl.  The narrator in the story is the daughter as she is thinking back when her mother would tell her all these expectations she wanted her to have in life.  Her mother would tell her how to clean, cook, even how to love a man.  Her mother did not want her daughter to become a slut so she was stern to her daughter.  According to the story the mother told her daughter "don't squat down to play marbles-you are not a boy" (178).  This shows different times have different rules.  Present day mothers are more open and the topics are not the same as they were in the story.  Mothers today are trying to keep their daughter from becoming young mothers because people are having sex earlier then ever.  It seems as if a mother and daughter relationships are not as close as they used to.     

Kennedy, X.J. Literature An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. N.p.: Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication, 2010. Print.